The Ear Club

Fall 2008 Unless otherwise stated, talks are at 4:00 in the Beach Room (3105 Tolman Hall) at UC Berkeley
9/1	LABOR DAY
9/8	Valeriy Shafiro Com. Disorders and Sciences Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL	"Untangling the effects of divided and selective attention in multi-talker listening"
9/15	Nicolas Mathevon Sensory Ecology, Neuroethology Jean Monnet University Saint-Etienne, France Miller Professor, U.C.Berkeley	"Acoustic communication in constraining environments: How do songbirds deal with dense vegetation?"
9/22
9/29	Brian Gygi V.A.Medical Research Martinez, CA	"The Incongruency Advantage for Environmental in Naturally-Occurring Scenes"
10/6	Poppy Crum Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University	"Targeting areas beyond AI: a method and implications for studying higher auditory processing"
10/13	Taffeta Elliott Bird Song Lab U C Berkeley Psychology	"Spectral and Temporal Modulations Required for Speech Comprehension"
10/20	BINAURAL BASH
10/27	Richard O. Duda Emeritus Prof. of Electrical Engineering San Jose State University Co-sponsor, Starkey Hearing Res. Ctr.	Accounting for head motion in binaural recording and reproduction
11/3	Ben Hornsby Hearing & Speech Sci. Vanderbilt Univ Co-sponsor, Starkey Hearing Res. Ctr.	"Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Listening Effort"
11/10	Andrew Oxenham Dept. Psychology Univ. of Minnesota Co-sponsor, Starkey Hearing Res. Ctr.	"Pitch perception and its role in source segregation"
11/17	Les Bernstein U. Conn. Med. Farmington, CN	"Binaural signal detection, masker level, and masker interaural correlation: Revisiting the internal noise hypothesis"
11/24	Ed Campion Dept Music, UCBerkeley Talk will be at CNMAT 1750 Arch St., Berkeley	"Resonance and Noise -- Making New Music in a Post-experimental Age"
12/1	Lee Miller Center for Mind and Brain U. C. Davis	"Neural bases of speech perception in noisy environments"
SPRING 2009
1/23	Special DATE on Friday Dan Levitin Dept Psychology McGill University 11 am. Tolman 5101 Sponsored by Cognitive Science	Mental Representations of Music
2/2	Ilana Witten wrote: Bioengineering Stanford	"Auditory spatial processing in a complex environment"
2/9	David Wessel Ctr New Music Audio Technology (CNMAT) Department of Music U.C.Berkeley	"New musical instrumentation: user interface to sound diffusion"
2/16	ARO in Baltimore
2/23	Kourosh Saberi Cognitive Science U.C.Irvine	"Mixed-modulation detection and lateralization of FM sweeps at high frequencies"
3/2	Wendy de Heer Equipe Audition Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Theunissen Lab, Berkeley	"Low-level and high-level contributions to auditory streaming"
3/9	Brent Edwards Starkey Hearing Research Center Berkeley	"Hot Topics in Hearing Aid Research and Related Auditory Perception Research at Starkey Laboratories"
3/16	Shaowen Bao Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Berkeley	"Plasticity in the developing auditory system"
3/20 2:00 3105 Tolman 3/23 is Spring Break	Special DATE on Friday Psyche Loui Neuro Imaging Laboratory Harvard Med	"The Highs and Lows of Cortical Connectivity: Insights from Extreme Cases in Musical Ability"
3/30	Chris Stecker Speech and Communication U. Washington, Seattle	"Integrating auditory spatial cues across time and type"
4/6	Erick Gallun National Ctr: Rehabilitative Auditory Research Portland	"Beyond the detection threshold: Impacts of age and hearing loss on auditory discrimination"
4/13	Eric Young Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins Univ.	"Plasticity is not always good"
4/20	Josh Miele Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute San Francisco	"Audio/Tactile Graphics: Saving Space with Sound"
4/27	Judy R. Dubno Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Med. Univ. of South Carolina	"Aging, Hearing Loss, and Speech Recognition"
5/4	Joe Hall III Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Univ. of North Carolina	"Perception of temporal envelopes"
5/11	Nicol Harper Redwood Ctr. for Theoretical Neuroscience Helen Wills Institute Berkeley	"Neural population coding of sound level adapts rapidly to stimulus statistics"

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